Prediction of depression based on job satisfaction and quality of work life of employees

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Seyedeh forough Fathi ¹ , jaffar pouyamanesh ²

1 - Department of Counseling , Abhar branch, Islamic Azad university, Abhar, Iran
2 - Department of Psychology , Abhar branch, Islamic Azad university, Abhar, Iran

Received: 2024-10-02 Accepted : 2025-03-04 Published : 2025-09-27

Keywords: depression, job satisfaction, quality of work life, Erico company,

Abstract :

The present study was conducted with the aim of predicting depression based on job satisfaction and quality of work life of the employees of Iranian Railway Industries Development Company (IRICO) in Abhar. This research is correlational in terms of its fundamental purpose and method. The statistical population of this research includes all the employees of the Iranian Railway Industry Development Company (IRICO), whose number of employees is 160, and 113 people were considered as a sample, who were selected from among the employees by a simple random sampling method and entered into the questionnaire. Aaron Beck Depression (BDI) in 1961 and includes 21 questions and Minnesota Job Satisfaction (MSQ) which was created in 1967 and includes 19 questions and and Walton's Quality of Work Life (QWL) , which was compiled in 1973, which included 31 questions, were answered, in this research, the Kolmogorov Smirnov test and regression were used, and the collected data were analyzed through SPSS 27 software, and finally the results The regression analysis indicated that the variable of job satisfaction could predict the depression of employees of Irico Company (P<0.05) and the variable of quality of work life could predict the depression of employees of Irico Company (P<0.05).

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